Sustainability-Oriented Futures in Computing

The field of computing is shifting towards sustainability-oriented futures, with a focus on reducing environmental harms and promoting social justice. Researchers are exploring new approaches to technology design, development, and deployment that prioritize continuity, adaptation, and rupture. This involves rethinking the role of ICT in sustainable futures, examining the material and cultural aspects of computing, and introducing new frameworks for navigating the redirection of computing towards more sustainable and equitable futures. Noteworthy papers in this area include:

  • The paper proposing a conceptual framework for navigating the redirection of computing towards sustainability-oriented futures, which introduces four categories to examine how material and cultural aspects of computing may become obsolete, persist, or contribute to sustainable futures.
  • The paper presenting a definition for energy experience and exploring prototypes of electronics devices converted to run from batteryless sustainable energy, which suggests new directions for device design and energy storage.
  • The paper introducing the Environmental Justice in Technology Principles, a framework to help reorient technological development toward social and ecological justice and collective flourishing.

Sources

Sprouting technology otherwise, hospicing negative commons -- Rethinking technology in the transition to sustainability-oriented futures

Energy Experience Design

Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits

Zombitron: towards a toolbox for repurposing obsolete smartphones into new interactive systems

Generative Bid Shading in Real-Time Bidding Advertising

Civil Servants as Builders: Enabling Non-IT Staff to Develop Secure Python and R Tools

Shaping a Profession, Building a Community: A Practitioner-Led Investigation of Public Interest Technologists in Civil Society

ICT Within Limits Is Bound To Be Old-Fashioned By Design

Expert-Guided Diffusion Planner for Auto-bidding

Optimal Boost Design for Auto-bidding Mechanism with Publisher Quality Constraints

Principles for Environmental Justice in Technology: Toward a Regenerative Future

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